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[19] sed alii in corde, alii in cerebro dixerunt animi esse sedem et locum; animum autem alii animam, ut fere nostri— declarat nomen:1 nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus et animosos et bene animatos et ex animi sententia; ipse autem animus ab anima dictus est—; Zenoni2 Stoico animus ignis videtur. sed haec quidem quae dixi, cor, cerebrum, animam, ignem volgo, reliqua fere singuli. ut multo3 ante veteres, proxime autem Aristoxenus, musicus idemque philosophus, ipsius corporis intentionem quandam, velut in cantu et fidibus quae ἁρμονία4 dicitur: sic ex corporis totius natura et figura varios motus cieri tamquam in cantu sonos.

1 ut fere nostri declarant nomen. nam ω corr. Dav. declarant nomina Sey.

2 Zeno fr. 134.

3 multo Bentl. multi cf. Lact. inst. 7, 13, 9 opif. 16, 13

4 armonia ω cf. I 24.41

Tusculanae Disputationes. M. Tullius Cicero. M. Pohlenz. Leipzig. Teubner. 1918.

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